Improvement in the manufacture of carpet-lining



. U ITED- STATES PATENT j OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. MAURAN, or PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [05,960, dated August 2, 1870.

.To all? .whont'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIA A. MAURAN, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, havein-vented a new and useful Improvement in,th'e Manufacture of Oarpet-Lining; and 1 do'hereby declare that the following specification isafull, clear,- and exact. description thereof.

Lini-ngs or paddings for the under sides of carpets have-heretofore been made of bats ot fibrous material spread between sheets ot coarse paper.

The-object of my improvements is to save the cost of paper for the outside covering of the padding by substituting in itsplace cardings of jute or flax, and surfacing the same by a coating of size. Y

A convenient way to manufacture the article will be found to employ a iapper, in combination with four carding-machines, the 1115-,

the intended padding is'niade up of two outer sheets of jute or flax, with an intermediate layer of cotton or other-soft fibrous niaterialsuitable for the purpose. Both surfaces of the intended carpet-lining are then to receive a coating of thick size, and be dried in a hot room, after the manner practiced in the wadding manufacture.

I am aware that wedding for garments has for a considerable time been nianu-fiictured with a glazed outer surface obtained by the use of size, and used as a means for holding the fibers which compose the bat.

I am also aware that the two surfaces of a but used for waddi'ng have been covered with some inaterialas wool.-'-capable of felting;

but Iain not aware that jute or flax, treated with size, has ever before been used as a sub, stitute for paper in the manufacture ot"car-- pet-linings or in the manufacture of wadding. I do not claim the arrangement of a lapper with two sets of, cards, above described, as

such arrangement of carding machinery is often resorted to to obtain layers of different filamentous material, and I have mentioned the same only for the purpose of showing a convenient way for manufacturing the improved earpet-lining which I have described.

That I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improvementinthe manufacture of car- ,pet-lining. which consists in' the substitution of carded j ute or flax, treated with size, fonthe outside surface of the bat which composes the soft body of the lining, the article produced thereby being substantially as described.

WILLIAM A. MAURAN.

\Vitnesses:

ORVILLE PEC'KHAM, EDW'ARD 0. Aims. 

